Andrew Lycett

Amusing Queen Victoria

The young queen was enchanted with the American dwarf Tom Thumb and later gave the royal seal of approval to the display of fairground freaks

issue 11 May 2019

  • Palaces of Pleasure: From Music Halls to the Seaside to Football: How the Victorians Invented Mass Entertainment

    Lee Jackson

    Yale, pp. 304

  • The Wonders: Lifting the Curtain on the Freak Show, Circus and Victorian Age

    John Woolf

    Michael O’Mara, pp. 376

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